Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5544 Films to Buy & Rent
Miss Nobody (2010)
- Dir. Tim Cox
Feat. Leslie Bibb, Adam Goldberg, Kathy Baker…
- Bloody black comedy with a mousy executive murdering her way up the corporate ladder. Strange brew that suggests AMELIE as remade by the Coen…
Morning Glory (2010)
- Dir. Roger Michell
Feat. Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton…
- Frothy comedy about a young television producer struggling to rescue her networks failing breakfast show, a show saddled with two decidedly ornery…
My Afternoons With Margueritte (2010)
- Dir. Jean Becker
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Gisèle Casadesus
- Gerard Depardieu plays an illiterate man who forges an unlikely friendship with a elderly writer in this gentle new film from the dir. of…
My Name is Khan (2010)
- Dir. Karan Johar
Feat. Shahrukh Khan, Kajol , Christopher B. Duncan
- Well–meaning plea for racial tolerance with an Aspergers–afflicted Muslim detained in the U.S. as a terrorist and undertaking a journey…
Names of Love, The (2010)
- Dir. Michel Leclerc
Feat. Jacques Gamblin, Sara Forestier, Zinedine Soualem…
- Witty cocktail of sex and politics about an extroverted left–wing activist who sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause.
Norman (2010)
- Dir. Jonathan Segal
Feat. Dan Byrd, Emily VanCamp, Richard Jenkins…
- A melancholy high school 'indie' about a teenage loner who claims his father's terminal cancer as his own in order to make tracks with a pretty…
Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) (2010)
- Dir. Aubrey Powell
Feat. Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones
- Live performance from the remaining Pythons (sans Cleese), inspired by their 1979 film, LIFE OF BRIAN.
Nothing to Declare (2010)
- Dir. Dany Boon
Feat. Dany Boon, Benoit Poelvoorde, Karin Viard…
- Actor–director Dany Boon follows up his hit regional comedy WELCOME TO THE STICKS with another lite French farce founded in stubborn parochial…
Offspring (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Asher Keddie, Don Hany, Deborah Mailman…
- A neurotic obstetrician and her extended Melbourne family navigate love and other disasters in this bright comedy series.
While not particularly…
On Tour (Tournee) (2010)
- Dir. Mathieu Amalric
Feat. Miranda Colclasure, Mathieu Amalric
- A consistently funny and inventive comedy from actor–director Mathieu Amalric, here playing a washed up TV producer who leads a troupe of…